Victory

Victory was a notable series made by Rue with 150 parts in total, holding the record for the longest series on the American website for a time. The series is a continuation of The Epic Series, The End, and Boom!; however, it differs from its predecessors due to its heavy involvement of fictional characters and website members, an element inspired by The Origin of 13, a series by Photo-bo which Victory competed with.

* An interactive portion of the series where the viewer decides what happens and which part to go to.† A non-canonical bad ending resulting from the viewer’s choice.‡ The canonical sequence of events, regardless of the viewer’s choice.

Controversy

Rue v. Photo-bo

As the popularity of the series was beginning to suffer, Photo-bo informed Rue of his opinion that he was getting selfish and that Victory was created for the sole purpose of dethroning The Origin of 13 as the longest series on the website. He supported these claims by quoting the descriptions of a number of Victory’s episodes which directly challenged Photo-bo. Although this was not Rue’s total intention, he admitted that he did mostly want the competition. Rue promptly released a movie in the form of an apology for all members of the website and placed the series on a month-long hiatus.

Sequel campaign

After not getting the reception he would have hoped towards Victory’s ending, Rue decided to promote and create a sequel to the series in 2012. Using an HTML exploit, Rue imported many images of graffiti saying statements such as it’s coming and you’ll like it in his next movies’ descriptions, baffling and surprising users. Conferences on xat were held in discussion of the strange writings. Rue initially denied any involvement, stating that he didn't know what users were talking about and that he only saw normal descriptions. Users attempted to debunk the definitions of the graffiti, but the confusion only worsened.

A few days later, Rue revealed that he was working on Victory 2 to a warm response. Shortly afterwards, the exploit used to create the graffiti was patched by the website moderators and the images were deleted; they have since been replaced with normal descriptions.

Trivia

A character is introduced to the series when their name is said for the first time. Once this happens, their name is displayed on the screen in all capital letters in reference to Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which introduces characters in the same way. This trend continues in Victory 2, albeit with the character’s name on a board rather than on a black screen.

The villains have the ability to morph into one another to form new villains. Such combinations include Enux/Aibolc, the combination of Enolc and Aibux; and Enuxnad, the combination of Enolc, Aibux, and Ecnad.

Dr. Doofenshmirtz’s catchphrase, “Curse you, Perry the Platypus!”, was replaced with a less harsh version for the series.

Oddities & Inconsistencies

Tails’ aircraft, the X Tornado, is mistakenly spelled as “Extornado” throughout the series.

While searching the Mushroom Kingdom, Sonic suggests that everyone grab onto his back while he runs, which the group does. This is absurdly unrealistic; the quantity of group members would be much too great for Sonic’s back to handle. The only way this would be feasible is if one member of the group grabbed onto Sonic’s back, another member grabbed onto that member of the group’s hand, and so on.

Despite Ecnad being the self-proclaimed “evil controller of time and space”, he makes virtually no attempt to change fate in the villains’ favour toward the end of the series.

In Part 69, the Team Rocket Grunt’s Ekans uses Scratch and String Shot, moves that it cannot learn in actuality.

References

In Part 65, the Pokémon Trainer claims that he has “mothers from all sorts of different regions, but for some reason they all stay in their houses”. This signifies that he does not embody any individual protagonist from the Pokémon series of games, but rather all of them at once, as this dialogue references the behaviour exhibited by the mother of every main character within it.

In Part 66, the Team Rocket Grunt says “And there goes the battle!” This is a reference to Pokémon Stadium 2, where the announcer yells this when a battle ends.

In Part 75, while watching Enolc unleash his full power upon the planet from 2000’s dimension, Edgar angrily asks Rue how Earth can be saved. The dialogue that follows is a reference to a scene in Kung Fu Panda.

Part 91, Part 122, and Part 124 all contain references to scenes in episodes of Phineas and Ferb.